Trauma-informed Career Practice: Session 2 (Oceania)
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Career guidance and employment services
Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.
Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.
This is a two-part online workshop exploring the practice of trauma-informed care within career development intervention and the context within which services are provided . Working from a trauma-informed perspective does not require that career development practitioners be experts on trauma or that they intervene in relation to their students’ or clients’ trauma. Clients want career practitioners to attend to their career concerns. However, a general understanding of trauma and its impact on clients and their career-related behaviour strengthens practitioners’ ability to structure and pace intervention according to clients’ current needs.
Session 2 Covers:
- Use of trauma-informed language (Do I need to say the word “trauma” to work from a trauma informed perspective?)
- Intentional skill use:
- Understanding functions of general skill categories (Questions, Reacting, Structuring).
- Intentional use of questioning and reacting skills.
- Using skills to reinforce professional boundaries, deepen engagement in career process (while at the same time linking clients to mental health resources and support) and acknowledging client experience but using skills to contain and focus intervention on career concerns.
- Demonstration of trauma-informed practice.
- Brief skill practice in triads.
- Developing implementation intentions for using skills immediately post-workshop.
Time: 9:00am- 10:30am AEDT
Registration for event is available on the Career Education of Australia website: https://ceav.vic.edu.au/shop/session-2-trauma-informed-career-practice-december-6-2022/c-25/p-5902
Career guidance
Asia and the Pacific
